A Companion to German Cinema

A Companion to German Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of essays demonstrating state-of-play scholarship on German cinema at a time during which cinema studies as well as German cinema have once again begun to flourish.

Includes essays by well-known writers as well as up-and-coming scholars who take innovative critical approaches to both time-honored and emergent areas in the field, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, and (trans)nationalism

Distinctive for its contemporary relevance, reorienting the field to the global twenty-first century

Fills critical gaps in the extant scholarship, opening the field onto new terrains of critical engagement

Terri Ginsberg is a director and public programmer at the
International Council for Middle East Studies in Washington, D.C.
She has taught film, media, and cultural studies at New York
University, Rutgers University, Dartmouth College, Ithaca College,
and Brooklyn College. She is author of Holocaust Film: The
Political Aesthetics of Ideology (2007), and co-editor (with
Kirsten Moana Thompson) of Perspectives on German Cinema
(1996) and of several other volumes on global cinema and Middle
Eastern film studies.

Andrea Mensch is a Senior Lecturer in the English
Department at North Carolina State University, and has also taught
film and literature courses in London and at the NCSU Prague
Institute. She was associate editor as well as book reviews editor
for Jouvert: A Journal of Post-colonial Studies.

“Any academic library that has students that might
get the merest whiff of cinema as part of their curriculum should
ensure this work is available to them.” (Reference
Reviews, 1 December 2012)

"[T]he carefully constructed essays in [this volume] contribute
to elevating this reference book so much more than its component
parts could have achieved - much like German cinema itself. It is a
volume that contributes significantly to reference works on German
cinema, European cinema, and cinematic history. Any academic
library that has students that might get the merest whiff of cinema
as part of their curriculum should ensure this work is available to
them."

- Matt Borg, Sheffield Hallam University, Reference Reviews

“A Companion to German Cinema represents the cutting edge of
German cinema studies that will force scholars to rethink their
approach to the subject. Conceptually innovative and theoretically
rigorous, the collection convincingly claims that the renewal of
the field must occur from its margins.” -- Roy
Grundmann, Boston University

“This book is meant to re-envision what has been little seen,
unsettle your thinking about German cinema and visual culture, and
examine German cinema’s socially transformative
potential.” -- Dora Apel, Wayne State University

“Combining a path-breaking exploration of German cinema
beyond the canon with a serious contribution to theories of nation
and transnationalism, this collection is a much-needed addition to
European film scholarship.” -- Rosalind Galt, University
of Sussex

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